11/02/2011

SPOILERS! Haven of Tranquility?

Last night for the first time, I watched Haven.

I am renting it from Netflix on dvd, so I saw the first four episodes.

A LOT of weird things go on in the town of Haven!

I like Eric Balfour's character, but forget his name right now and don't have IMDb up due to a slowly-opening Google+ page that I'm trying to let totally open before I open up anything else and foul it up... LOL! He's a charming ne'er-do-well who lives on a boat docked there in Haven. The police chief's son (gotta remember his character or the actor's name soon so I don't have to keep calling him the police chief's son or Emily Rose's partner in crime-fighting LOL) does NOT like him and says so in no uncertain terms when he's describing Balfour's character to Emily Rose's character before she meets Balfour. From the description, Balfour is a criminal-type, whether or not he's ever been convicted, we still have to find out.

Emily Rose is beautiful as the young FBI agent assigned to go to Haven, Maine to capture an escaped criminal, only t find when she gets there that he is dead after having fallen off a cliff. The only thing is, he's way too far away from the foot of the cliff, as though he was thrown a great distance by something.

Nicholas Campbell is the crusty police chief of the town of Haven. He's an alumnist of at least one Stephen King movie, The Dead Zone. In it, he played Tom Skerrit's character's deputy who was found to be a serial killer and committed suicide before he could be arrested.

In one episode, Stephen McHattie plays the role of a minister called The Rev by the police chief's son, who works on the police force also and becomes the crime-fighting partner of Emily Rose's character.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine/ tv's The Dead Zone's Nicole DeBoer appears in the first episode as the owner of an antique shop who recently received a large enheritance and is the target of the man who fell/was pushed off the cliff and another man she thinks loves her and wants her to go to California with him to open an antique shop there. She finds out she has the power to control the weather, causing all kinds of weird weather to manifest, especially when she is upset.

Emily Rose's character is an orphan and she finds a photo from 1983 there in Haven PD from the scene where the body of The Colorado Kid was discovered. The woman in the photo bears a striking resemblance to Rose and she later finds out the woman's name is Lucy, from a former florist who had been in the town's mental institution called The Freddy. He had been a catatonic, along with one other patient in the same condition and a lady who had been hospitalized there since she was injured in a car accident, being submerged underwater for several minutes, suffering brain damage when her husband ran off the road into the river years before. They all became well (temporarily) when the woman's husband played a few notes on a piano in the mental institution's rec room. Unfortunately, the music had the opposite effect on the hospital's doctor, making him violent and raging against contamination.

I need to re-read Stephen King's The Colorado Kid, on which this show Haven is based. I only read it once and that was years ago, so I have forgotten the particulars of the story. It was written as a hard-boiled detective novel. I don't remember any type of supernatural aspect of it, but that means nothing, since it's been years and was only a one-time read for me. I wasn't wild about the book then, but the tv show based on it (loosely, I assume) intrigues me a bit, sorta, kinda...